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Call for Reviews and Essays
Education about Asian/ Asian Educational Media Service
Spring 2008 Special Section
This special multimedia
section will be published in cooperation with the University of Illinois-based
Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) in the spring 2008 issue. Reviews may address the use of feature films,
documentaries, CD-ROMs, pod casts, and Web sites in teaching about Asia, with an emphasis upon classroom use.
Reviews should run approximately 500 words (two double-spaced manuscript
pages); essays should run about 1,000 words (four double-spaced manuscript
pages).
author guidelines | contact | Deadline: January 10, 2008.
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Book Launch
 Aspects of Archaeometallurgy in South and Southeast Asia: A study of Metal Objects from North India and Thailand
by Ravindra N. Singh The book offers a synthesis of the available scientific and archaeological data on the study of copper and iron objects from northern India particularly, the Middle Ganga Plain and their relation with South East Asian sites, particularly on the issue of tin. The book examines the most recent research into the quantitative and structural studies of metals. more infoWilliam J. Gedney's Comparative Tai Source Book
by Thomas John Hudak
This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common
cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally
collected by the Tai linguist, the late William J. Gedney, the data are
organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the
Southwestern, the Central and the Northern, to facilitate comparisons
among the various sound systems within the individual branches and within
the Tai family as a whole.
For more information, please contact: asiabook@gil.com.au
Historical Dictionary of Laos. Third Edition
by Martin Stuart-Fox
The third edition of this historical dictionary - through its chronology,
introductory essay, appendixes, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of
cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events,
and institutions and significant political, economic, social and cultural
aspects - traces Laos' history and provides a compass for the
direction the country is heading.
For more information, please contact: asiabook@gil.com.au |
Call for Papers
Ten Years After: Reformasi and New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998 - 2008
UC Berkeley-UCLA Joint Conference
April 25-26, 2008
This conference seeks to examine
the new forces that have emerged and transformations that have occurred in Indonesia since
the collapse of the authoritarian New Order regime of President Suharto in May
1998.
Specific topics suggested for presentations include agrarian movements,
contending histories, cultural transformations, religious movements, labor
movements, NGO advocacy and activism, and political parties and political
change. Abstracts (up to 500 words) should include name, affiliation and contact information.
website | email | Deadline: February 1, 2008 2008 Graduate Student ConferenceCornell University, Southeast Asia ProgramMarch 14-16, 2008Submissions from graduate students at any stage engaged in
original research related to Southeast Asia are welcomed. Graduate students working
in the following disciplines as well as other related fields that
contribute to the understanding of Southeast Asia are encouraged to
apply: history, literature, art history, sociology, musicology,
religion, anthropology, archeology, architectural history, gender
studies, political science, economics, linguistics and literature, etc. website | email | Deadline: January 31, 2008 |
UH Library Database on Islam
Our SEA collection library team has been creating
an online database of periodical articles and articles in anthologies on Islam in Southeast Asia (as well as a database on Buddhism in Southeast Asia).
The database is still under construction but is useable. It has 500 entries as of now.
Please check it out!
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Positions and Fellowships
Foreign Language Instructors of Arabic, Indonesian or Thai. Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC more infoFellowships for the 2008-2009 year at the Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
more info | Deadline: February 15, 2008
Graduate and Undergraduate Internships for Spring 2008 in Southeast Asia, Asia Catalyst more info | contact |
| Kyoto Reviews of Southeast Asia
This latest issue of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia posted a double issue on culture (No. 8/9, March/October 2007) has been uploaded.
It features essays on Philippine and Thai literature, modern Malaysian Islamic music and colonial Indonesian musical culture, Indonesian museums, theater collaboration between Japan and Southeast Asia, and Japanese pop culture.
The issue includes short book reviews, essays on Indonesian Muslim intellectuals and Malay culture in southern Thailand, and reprints by a noted Thai academic, a controversial Thai essayist, and a highly-respected Filipina nun-activist, etc.
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Balinese Tempest
Coming January 2008
An
unusual adaptation of Shakespeare's most musical and magical play.
Guest artist Larry Reed will fuse Balinese and Elizabethan elements
with his hallmark shadowcasting method, which utilizes a giant screen
and live performers to create a magical shadow theatre performance. The
production will also feature live
music by the UH Balinese Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of guest artist I. Nyoman Sumandhi.
more info
SEA Film Series
Now in its fourth year!
This fall the Center's popular Southeast Asian Film Series will include The Story of Pao (Vietnam), Mekong Full Moon Party (Thailand), the epic film Courtesan (Indonesia), Indio Nacional (Philippines), Me...Myself (Thailand) in addition to films from Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia! |
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